Nina Marie Perino testifies remotely supporting ban

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Nina Marie Perino.

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Yes, I just unmuted.

Okay.

Thank you.

I think everything has been covered that I wanted to say.

I support the bill fully.

Live in Florida, but I'm originally from Long Island, and going into the city, depressing to see the horse carriages.

I see them here in Florida, too.

And I've been signing and sharing petitions, calling council members, calling the mayor.

De Blasio promised it.

Every mayor that came into office promised to ban horse carriages.

We're still waiting.

I don't know why it has to exist.

It's completely unnecessary.

And thank you for saying that they are not used for transportation.

It's purely entertainment.

And think about the autonomy that you have that the horses don't.

They don't have a choice of what they're doing, when they eat, if they're cold or if they're hot, if they want to walk around.

Just think about when you're waiting in line somewhere.

Imagine that's your whole life.

And somebody controls when you go to the bathroom, you go to the bathroom right where you are.

They live in a concrete prison upstairs in a concrete prison.

That's their life, for carting people's fat asses around.

Enough.

Do it.

Have a heart.

Have compassion.

Don't just think about your own needs.

We can have fun without harming animals and other people.

I cried through the whole testimony of Raj's family.

I was heartbroken.

It was just so unnecessary.

Tried to get this passed for so long.

And knew this would happen, and now it did.

And I hate that it has to come to a human life being lost, to people to care about all beings.

We're all the same in all the important ways.

We all want to be free from pain.

We want to be loved.

We want kindness and care and companionship and community and support and freedom.

And I want to get up, or I want to sit down.

I want to lay down now.

I don't want to be told what to do.

Time expired.

Can you please summarize?

That's it.

Thank you so much.

Thank you very much.

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